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Author Interview: Commentator Elie Mystal on Laws That Piss Him Off — And You Should Be Pissed Off as Well

March 26, 2025
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“I didn’t want to write just another “orange man bad” book. I wanted to remind people that the world exists in the way that it does on purpose. We have chosen to live this way. We could choose tomorrow to NOT live this way and things would be better.”

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Author Interview: Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian on His First Novel, “Nobody’s Empire”

January 27, 2025
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With 12 studio albums and myriad EPs to his band’s credit, Stuart Murdoch can now boast, not that he’s the type to do so, of being a published novelist.

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Musician Interview: Yes’s Jon Anderson on Teaming Up with The Band Geeks

June 19, 2024
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“I’m going to be 80 in October, and what a way to spend your 80th year on the planet, to be able to go out and do rock ‘n’ roll shows everywhere!”

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Author Interview: Tiya Miles on Empowering the Memory of Harriet Tubman

June 14, 2024
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Many of us think of Harriet Tubman as a lone heroic figure. But the truth is she was never alone; she did things that other people did not do.

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Author Interview: Talking with Award-Winning Poet and Essayist Maggie Smith

May 30, 2024
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The inciting action of Smith’s moving memoir is the event that forced her to reckon with the fact that her marriage was in trouble.

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Rock Album Review: Cloud Nothings’s “Final Summer” — Bopping Your Head as You Sing Along

May 1, 2024
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What is it about Final Summer that makes it a very good Cloud Nothings album but not a great one?

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Author Interview: Richard L. Hasen on “The Real Right to Vote”

April 10, 2024
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“We have much less protection over our right to vote than most people think.”

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Music Interview: Matthew Sweet — After Five Years, Back on the Road

April 9, 2024
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The alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician was slowed down during the COVID years — but now he is back.

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Author Interview: Historian Steven Hahn on “Illiberal America”

March 28, 2024
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“The hardest part of the book for me to write was the conclusion. It’s a very dark book. I didn’t want to write a dark conclusion, but I also didn’t want to be Pollyannaish about it.”

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Author Interview: Journalist David Montero on “The Stolen Wealth of Slavery”

February 3, 2024
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“A lot of books talk about slavery as something that just happened in the South and ended in 1865. I felt like there could be a book about how the North was making more of the profit and was in some ways more responsible morally, politically, and financially than the South.”

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